Crossword clues for inkwell
inkwell
- Aid to John Hancock
- Place to dip an old pen
- A small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped
- Desk accessory, once
- Old school desk feature
- Writer's assistant in pink wellies
- Reservoir into which old-fashioned writers would be dipped
- Pot for writing fluid
- Place to dip a quill
- Where there's a quill?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed.
WordNet
n. a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped [syn: inkstand]
Wikipedia
An inkwell is a small jar or container, often made of glass, porcelain, silver, brass, or pewter, used for holding ink in a place convenient for the person who is writing. The artist or writer dips the brush, quill, or dip pen into the inkwell as needed or uses the inkwell as the source for filling the reservoir of a fountain pen. An inkwell usually has a lid to prevent contamination, evaporation, accidental spillage, and excessive exposure to air. A type known as the travelling inkwell was fitted with a secure, screw lid so a traveller could carry a supply of ink in their luggage without the risk of leakage.
Inkwells gradually fell out of use in the early part of 20th century as the reservoir fountain pen (which needs to be filled only occasionally) replaced the dip pen, which needed to be dipped in ink after writing a few lines. Holes known as inkwells are a common feature of old school desks, and would have held a small container with the student's ink.
Inkwell, or simply Ink, is the name of the handwriting recognition technology developed by Apple Inc. and built into the Mac OS X operating system. Introduced in an update to Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar", Inkwell can translate English, French, and German writing. The technology made its debut as " Rosetta", an integral feature of Apple Newton OS, the operating system of the short-lived Apple Newton personal digital assistant. Inkwell's inclusion in Mac OS X led many to believe Apple would be using this technology in a new PDA or other portable tablet computer. However, none of the touchscreen iOS devices--iPhone/iPod/iPad--offers Inkwell handwriting recognition.
Inkwell, when activated, appears as semi-transparent yellow lined paper, on which the user sees his or her writing appear. When the user stops writing, his or her writing is interpreted by Inkwell and pasted into the current application (wherever the active text cursor is), as if the user had simply typed the words. The user can also force Inkwell to not interpret his or her writing, instead using it to paste a hand-drawn sketch into the active window.
Inkwell was developed by Larry Yaeger, Brandyn Webb, and Richard Lyon.
Inkwell can refer to:
- Inkwell, small jar or container that is used for holding ink
- Inkwell (Lake Landing, North Carolina), on the US National Register of Historic Places
- Inkwell (Macintosh), handwriting recognition technology built into Mac OS X
- Inkwell (band), an alternative rock band
- Inkwell (journal), a literary journal at Manhattanville College
The Inkwell, also known as The Octagon House, is an historic octagonal house located on U.S. 264 east of Lake Landing on Lake Mattamuskeet near Engelhard, Hyde County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855 by Dr. William T. Sparrow. It is an eight-sided, two-story, frame dwelling. It sits on a brick pier foundation, weatherboard siding, and has a low-pitched tent like roof. The house features a central octagonal chimney of stuccoed brick.
On September 1, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the Lake Landing Historic District.
Inkwell is a literary journal published by Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. First published in 1995. The journal publishes short stories, poetry, and essays by both emerging and established writers. Inkwell also hosts annual contests in fiction and poetry.
Inkwell is an indie rock band from Winter Park, Florida. They have released three full length albums and one EP, as well as a collaboration with former techno artist Floorboard. They are currently signed with One Eleven Records. The band consists of two members, Travis Adams, former frontman from My Hotel Year and Davey Pierce who has worked with of Montreal. The band recently performed a small tour with of Montreal along the east coast. Their most recent album Rivers of Blood and Sadness, or Maybe Happy was released on iTunes music store April 21, 2009.
Usage examples of "inkwell".
Inkwells spilled, always across important parchments, quill points broke and styli slipped on waxboards to mar whole columns of figures.
He sat with his pen at all hours, using up inkwells, writing it out, and the nonsense looked worse than it sounded.
Of his three finely decorative inkwells, this one he prized most, having once belonged to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and then to Lord Tennyson, who had sent it to Longfellow as a gift to wish him well on the Dante translation.
I cleaned, setting the jewelry box back carefully, relining the pearls, replacing the letter, polishing and replacing the inkwell.
I dispatched Clairmont to a stationer's, where he bought me a beautiful morocco case with lock and key, containing paper, pens, sealing-wax, inkwell, paper knife, seal, and in fact, everything necessary for writing.
She stood by my chair for a moment putting envelopes on the desk, pausing to make little adjustments of the inkwell and paper weights, tidying things up a bit.
Lorn shakes his head slightly, then steps into his study and sets the papers and inkwell and pen on the freshly-polished but battered golden-oak surface.
Dr Savage's bequest had been somewhat liberally interpreted, for an inkwell, a pen tray, two letter files, two paperweights, a small bust of Homer, a packet of blotters and an air-cushion which had been in the swivel chair were gone, as well.
Twelve hundred pair of greaves, crossbows, breastplates, rotting boots, chewed-up harnesses, seventy bolts of stiff linen, twelve inkwells, twenty thousand torches, tallow lamps, currycombs, balls of twine, sticks of licorice wood -- the chewing gum of the fourteenth century -- sooty armorers, packs of hounds, Teutonic Knights playing drafts, harpists jugglers muteleers, gallons of barley beer, bundles of pennants, arrows, lances, and smokejacks for Simon Bache, Erik Cruse, Clause Schone, Richard Westrall, Spannerle, Tylman and Robert Wendell in the bridge-building scene, in the bridge-crossing scene, in ambush, in the pouring rain: sheaves of lightning, splintered oak trees, horses shy, owls blink, foxes track, arrows whir: the Teutonic Knights are getting nervous.
An eighteenth-century inkstand—complete with quill holder, penknife, inkwell, pounce box (to hold the desiccant powder), and wafer box (to hold the paste sealing wafers)—was a monument to the physical act of writing.
Also on the table were an open inkwell, a pen and writing-pad, a physician's medical case, a bottle of hydrochloric acid, and a tumbler about a quarter full of black oxide of manganese.
The high-backed chair with arms at the far end was obviously me First Lord's, and the pile of paper, quill, silver paper-knife, inkwell and sandbox in front of it indicated he probably used the Board Room as his own office.
A few animated posters hung on the walls, but there was also a lot of static graffiti done up in plain ink, and the reason for this was quickly apparent: each table had a big feather pen stuck prominently into a built-in inkwell.
She thrust the guest book at Jacqueline, together with a quill plucked from an antique inkwell.
He sits down at the narrow desk in his quarters, under the pool of light cast by the small lamp, and lays out one of the few remaining sheets of paper, then dips the pen in the inkwell.